The singles chart wasn’t created to be a ground-breaking format that would change the way we made, sold and listened to popular music for half a century. It wasn’t intended to be a cultural behemoth that united artists, record labels and fans in a feverish desire to answer one question - what was the most popular song this week? It wasn’t created to do any of that. It was created to sell advertising.
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